2018 Tanglewood reviews

Article updated Nov. 16, 2018, by Dave Conlin Read Tanglewood photos from the 2018 season, dubbed by the BSO “Summer of Lenny in the Berkshires,” which peaked on Aug. 25 with a kaleidoscopic array of artists and ensembles from the worlds of classical music, film, and Broadway. The entire first half of the program is […]

Article updated Sept. 2, 2018 by Dave Read Wynton Marsalis is every bit the national treasure that Leonard Bernstein was and it seems that we in the Tanglewood orbit keep getting luckier. This was dubbed the Bernstein Centennial Summer, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra segment of it was bookended with concerts by artists representing the […]

Article updated August 30, 2018 by Dave Read Spirits were yet scurrying back to their haunting places when Christopher Eisenbach took to the podium less than fifteen hours after the Bernstein Centennial Celebration to lead the Boston Symphony and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in the program that would conclude the BSO’s Summer of Lenny in […]

Article updated August 26, 2018 by Dave Read The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood, the culmination of the Summer of Lenny in the Berkshires, was a three hour variety show that wrapped up with the rafter-rattling Finale from Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection.” But, since it would’ve been too tidy for this event to dissolve […]

Article updated August 21, 2018 by Dave Read The Sunday afternoon (Aug. 19) program on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2018 Tanglewood calendar has loomed in anticipation since I filled out my summer concert list months ago, especially because of the rarity of the Bernstein selection, Three Meditations from Mass, for cello and orchestra, which has […]

Article updated Aug. 11, 2018 by Dave Read Tanglewood on Parade, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s annual fundraiser in support of the Tanglewood Music Center, with a schedule of concerts, recitals and events all afternoon and culminating with a gala evening concert, was visited by late afternoon thunderstorms that sent music lovers as well as all […]